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Jeanine Pirro: “If you possess a gun legally and it is registered, then you…”

Featuring: Jeanine Pirro, Republican | United States Attorney for the District of Columbia | National

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Published | Video Starts at 29:39

As evidence that the federal surge in your office's work is working. How do you reconcile easily for more removal of these guns while also limiting the city's ability to restrict them easily? If you possess a gun legally and it is registered, then you have the right to have it. However, if you are using a gun in a crime, then we're going to seize the gun and we're going to prosecute you for that. They are not at all inconsistent. (29:39–29:48)

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Asserts that legally registered gun owners have the right to possess their firearms.

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